Call for moratorium on ship scrubbers

摘要

In May,ten international non-govern-a letter to the IMO Secretary General Kitack Lim,calling for an immediate moratorium on the shipping industry’s use of scrubber technology as an alternative compliance mechanism for current SOx Emissions Control Areas and the looming 2020 global fuel sulphur standards.This follows the publication of alarming evidence in a US federal felony criminal case against Carnival Corporation that demonstrated how Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems(EGCS)systems failed multiple times,leading to significant air and water pollution violations.